Pharmacopœia Bateana, or, Bate's dispensatory translated from the second edition of the Latin copy, published by Mr. James Shipton : containing his choice and select recipe's, their names, compositions, preparations, vertues, uses, and doses, as they are applicable to the whole practice of physick and chyrurgery : the Arcana Goddardiana, and their recipe's intersperst in their proper places, which are almost all wanting in the Latin copy : compleated with above five hundred chymical processes, and their explications at large, various observations thereon, and a rationale upon each process : to which are added in this English edition, Goddard's drops, Russel's pouder [sic], and the Emplastrum febrifugum, those so much fam'd in the world : as also several other preparations from the Collectanea chymica, and other good authors / by William Salmon ...

XIX. Sal Aceti Essentiale, Essential Salt of Vinegar.

Bate.] Boil the Caput Mortuum of the Spirit of Vinegar in Water, filter and crystallize, S. A. it is sudori∣fick, and resists Putrefaction. Dose, à gr. v. ad 10. in any proper Vehicle.

Salmon.] § 1. Abstract Vinegar to the consistence of Honey, then set it to crystal∣lize: these Crystals you may purifie by dissolving them in the Flegm of the Vinegar, evaporating, and crystallizing again.

§ 2. Marggrave does it in a Glass Retort, and then ab∣stracts but to the consistency of a Syrup or new Honey; lest it should contract an Empyreuma: but distilling the Spirit of Vinegar in a low Cucurbit in B. M. he distils to dryness: a quarter part of what is distil∣led is Flegm of Vinegar, which ought to be taken by it self; the other there parts is Spirit of Vinegar.

§ 3. The Feces at bottom, whether like Syrup or dry, con∣tain the Salt and Oil of Vine∣gar, or its fixt and gross Sul∣phur, which may each by them∣selves be separated, if the Feces be dissolved in pure Water; then presently the Water being throughly mixt with the Sul∣phur or Oily parts is decanted red into another Vessel, and the Sal Aceti will remain in the bottom like Sand; which is the essential Salt of the Vine∣gar, and is nothing but Crude Tartar, which by the fair Water is purified and edulco∣rated.

§ 4. Some affusing the Flegm of the Vinegar upon the Feces, digest twenty four hours then filter, strain, and evaporate in a Glass Vessel to the consistency of a Syrup, and call it Elixir Aceti: it is stomatick, attenuates, and excites the Appetite.

§ 5. The Spirit of Vine∣gar, cools, drys, and astrin∣ges; attemperates and thick∣ens thin fermenting Humors; and on the contrary again o∣pens and incides crass and vis∣cous Humors, attenuates, provokes Sweat and Urine, and preserves from Putrefa∣ction. Dose, à ʒij. ad iv. It prevails against the Plague and all contagious Diseases, Pleurisies and internal Infla∣mations.

§ 6. It is a noble and e∣gregious Menstruum in Chy∣mistry for dissolving Stones, Shells, Coral, Pearl, and Me∣tals, as Venus, Saturn, Jupi∣ter, Mars, and for making Mineral and Metalick Tin∣ctures and Extractions.